LG Readies Tablet, Optimus Smartphones — SEOUL—LG Electronics Inc., which was late to the smartphone game, said it plans to launch 10 more smartphones and sell five million devices by the end of the year in a scramble to compete with rivals. — The South Korean company also plans to launch …

We've Moved to Facebook — It's been an exciting year at Hot Potato. Since going live last November, we've been inspired and energized by your reaction to the service and people's appetite for socializing around activities and live events. — Today, we're thrilled to announce …

It's Official: Google Acquires Like.com — It's official. Google has acquired Like.com. In a post on Like.com's homepage, the company's CEO and Founder Munjal Shah writes that the visual search engine has been bought by Google. We originally reported the acquisition last weekend. Updating.

The Future of Internet Search — print recommend Send link clip secure rights — NEW YORK - Imagine that Googling an address gave you a list of the closest buildings, ranked by distance. Not exactly what you were looking for, most likely. But that is pretty close to what we still accept for most Internet searches.

Tweet Button Bookmarklet: Share links from any page — Last week, we announced an easy-to-install and lightweight Tweet Button that allows publishers to make it easy for users to share a link to their content on Twitter. Thousands of sites have implemented the Tweet Button already.

Facebook Places: The Real Target Is Yelp — Most of the attention paid to Facebook Places, the new location feature that the social network launched on Thursday, has focused either on the privacy implications of the service, or on the impact that it could have on location-based startups such as Foursquare …

The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone — One day you're the brightest star in the galaxy. Then something new comes along — and suddenly you're a relic. It's a turn of fate that awaits sports heroes, movie stars, political leaders. And, yes, even household appliances.

T-Mobile G2 again, this time with less Mr. Blurrycam — So we just got a second batch of T-Mobile G2 shots dropped in our mailbox — and this time, you can get a much better look at the inner workings of the carrier's version of the upcoming HTC Vision. [Looks like this bad boy slides and tilts …

Textbooks Up Their Game — Inkling Adapting College Best Sellers for iPad, Capitalizing on Interactive Features — Maybe the iPad will move digital college textbooks out of theory and into practice. — Although electronic book sales have exploded, digital college textbooks have been slow …

Best Buy To Focus On Tablets For Holidays — Best Buy is known for stocking thousands of electronic gadgets. To date, that assortment has included just one tablet computer-Apple's iPad-but that will change in coming months, Forbes has learned. — “Going into the holidays …

Google Runs out of Nexus Ones for developers — Google scrapped its plan to sell the Nexus One through its own store in July, six months after trying to rewrite the phone market's rules. With Android developers, though, to whom Google still sells the phone, it's become a bit too desirable at least measured by Google's inventory.

Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash — Cascading fail — Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago. — Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed with 172 on board moments after taking off from Madrid's Barajas Airport …

FleshDrives pitch plug-and-play adult content — “Hundreds of adult movies in the palm of your hand” is the motto behind New York-based FleshDrive, a new company selling USB thumbdrives filled with porn. The small devices are targeted at busy travelers and others looking/lurking for virus-free porn …

ICANN Asks Demand Media for Answers After Report — The group responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system is asking Demand Media's eNom division for answers following complaints from Internet security groups. — ENom, the world's second-largest domain name registrar …

HTML5 Raises New Security Issues — As HTML5 enhances the Web, so too will it bring new vulnerabilities, security experts warn — IDG News Service — When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind.

Google Makes it Easier to Monetize iPad Apps — Google Gives AdSense for Mobile Applications Feature New Options — Google has launched a new feature for its Mobile for AdSense apps, which lets developers in the U.S. and Canada, who are participating in the beta program, to monetize their iPad apps.